Film Comment

Atrocity exhibition: our guests compare directorial approaches to depicting political violence in film

Talking taboo with the great priestess of film: a vintage interview with the iconic actress

Media blackout: looking back at the grotty glory of Times Square theaters

Talking pictures: an interview with the landmark experimental filmmaker, choreographer, and poet

Street theater: a post-screening discussion with the Safdie Brothers, Ronald Bronstein, and Robert Pattinson about their New York thriller

Off the set, into the streets: looking at the famous (or unexplored) places that made a film

Finding her way: a discussion of Barbara Loden’s trailblazing 1970 film and Nathalie Léger’s fascinating (and frustrating) meditation on it

Self-rule: a few declarations about notable American independent filmmakers, past and present

Diamonds in the rough, thorns amid the roses: our critics explore films of inconsistent quality

Video killed what now? Weighing in on the debate about how and when we get to watch film

Where were the parents? The films four critics can’t stop watching (for better or worse) and some pseudo-psychological attempts to figure out why

Surviving the working week: a guide to Fassbinder’s newly restored must-see TV series, a humanist ode to the common man

Parting shots: a security-check-free view of the latest by David Lynch, Lynne Ramsay, Jane Campion, and others

Live from the Croisette: on the new films from Denis, Östlund, Varda, Lanthimos, Haneke, and more

Hitchhiker's guide to the Croisette: a quick reference for all sections

Sing along: four movie musicals that helped define the genre, and four that are redefining it

Against the state: a post-screening discussion of the big-screen adaptation of George Orwell's novel

Happy birthday, Film Comment! A quartet of critics give each other films they’ve never seen before

Fast break: the Pope of Trash calls in from his Baltimore home for a chat

Remembering the director of Stop Making Sense, Something Wild, and Silence of the Lambs